On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 23:10, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:> What about the following idea?> Both stay enabled by default but the help text explains exactly (as> far as possible) which systems are affected.> This would help newbies like me to decide if those bugfixes are> necessary or not.

Its the ideal solution. The diff for this is available on your computeralready - its kept in /dev/null 8)

The PC-Technologies RZ1000 IDE chip is used on many common 486and Pentium motherboards, usually along with the "Neptune"chipset. Unfortunately, it has a rather nasty design flaw that cancause severe data corruption under many conditions. Say Y here toinclude code which automatically detects and corrects the problemunder Linux. This may slow disk throughput by a few percent, but atleast things will operate 100% reliably.

The CMD-Technologies CMD640 IDE chip is used on many common486 and Pentium motherboards, usually in combination with a "Neptune"or "SiS" chipset. Unfortunately, it has a number of rather nasty design flaws that can cause severe data corruption under manycommon conditions. Say Y here to include code which tries toautomatically detect and correct the problems under Linux. This option also enables access to the secondary IDE ports in some CMD640 based systems.